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"To say that the news of the Soviet withdrawal from the Summer Olympics deflated our Los Angeles staff would be a considerable understatement," says Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate. "Like the athletes training to compete for the medals, we have been preparing our coverage for more than a year: beats were...
Practically a generation has passed since that well-intended policy paper, the notorious "Moynihan Report," prompted an angry dispute over the nature of the modern American black family. The report is still persuasive, yet the touchy issues it raised were until recently judged almost unfit for public debate. Now, however...
If John Neumann and Ru Selle Diana Harwood have left any legacy--and I believe they have left a very rich one--it is to keep our hearts and minds forever fixed on what is most important in this too often dark and turbulent world--qualities of compassion, the meaningful...
In the marijuana cases, the high court relied primarily on a 60-year-old decision by Oliver Wendell Holmes that involved a South Carolina moonshiner who dumped illegal liquor in a field near his home. Holding that revenue officers could testify about the liquor, Holmes said that "the special protection...
Acting on a near forgotten law of 1969, the SLA sent tart notes to owners of ten of the Times's restaurants that did not have licenses. The letter ordered them to stop the practice of brown bagging on threat of fines or imprisonment for up to a year...